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After more than ten years of hosting by the University of Illinois, where it’s had well over a million page views, the Web of Language has moved.

Here you will find everything you want to know about language and are not afraid to ask:

how English changes and why

how we try to control language through laws and rules, and why that doesn’t work so well

how technology shapes our language, and how the needs of speakers and writers shape technology

why scientists long ago abandoned the four humors and the geocentric universe, but instead of teaching the latest theories of language acquisition, use, and change, schools embrace a flat-earth grammar that would be familiar to Aristotle, assuming Aristotle could speak English.